Window-sash fastening



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JULIUS HORNIG, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

WINDOW-SASH FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,273, dated July 24, 1860.

To all whom it 'may concern: which it may be readily turned in the open-Be it known that I, J. Hormis, of Newing f. ark, in the county of Essexand State of The outer part c, of the plate is suiiiciently New Jersey,have invented a new and Iinwide to form a good bearing surface againstproved lVindow-Sash Fastening; and I do the inner side of the stile d,as shown in 50 hereby declare that the following is a full, Fig. 3.clear, and exact description of the same, From the above description itwill be seen reference being had to the accompanying that when theeccentric C, is so turned that drawings, making a part of thisspecificaits handle g, between the screw and the tion, in whichpart c,of the plate and below the screw as 55 Figures l, 2, and 4, are faceviews of a porshown in Fig. l, the eccentric will cause the tion of awindow with my invention applied part c, of the plate to bear againstthe stile to a sash. Figs. 3, and 5, are sections of d, and with apressure due to the weight of the same taken respectively in the lines00, ir, the sash, the pressure being suiiicient to rey, y, Figs. 2, andl. tain the sash in the frame, butwhen the ec- 60 Similar letters ofreference indicate corcentric is so turned that the handle g, willresponding parts in the several figures. be above the screw b, as shownin Fig. 2, the The obyect of this invention is to obtaln eccentric willprevent the sash from being a fastening for window sashes which may,raised at the outer side of the window for by a very simple adjustment,be used to rein attempt-ing to raise the sash, the eccen- 65 tain thesashes at any desired height withtric will press the part c, of theplate against in the range of their movement and also the stile (Z. Theeccentric C, is turned from used as a lock to secure the sashes in aclosed one of the above described positions to the state so that theycannot be opened or moved other by grasping the handle g, with the atthe outer side of the window. thumb and linger. 70

The invention consists in the employment In Figs. 4, and 5, amodification of the 01 use 0f an eccentric fitted Within ii Suitdeviceis shown. In the latter figures the plate able plate so arranged andapplied to the D, is applied to the sash in a mortise 7i, and sash as toelit'ect the desired result. the axis z', of the eccentric C, passesthrough To enable those skilled in the art to fully a plate j, which isscrewed over the mortise 75 understand and construct my invention I 71.,the axis z', having a knob 71:, on its outer will proceed to describeit. end by .which the eccentric may be turned. A, represents a portionof a window frame rl`he latter arrangement might be preferable and B, aportion of a sash fitted therein in in some cases. the usual way. Havingthus described my invention what 80 C, Figs. l, 2 and 3, is an eccentricwhich I claim as new and desire to secure by Letis attached to one ofthe stiLes a, of the sash ters. Patent isby a screw b. The combinationof the eccentric C, and D, is a metal plate the outer part c, of plateD, applied to the sash B, and arranged 40 which is parallel with one ofthe stiles d, of relatively with the stile d, of the frame A, 85 thewindow frame A, the inner part e, of to operate as and for the purposeset forth. the plate having a circular opening' f, in JULIUS HORNIG.which the eccentric C, is iitted. The eccen- Vitnesses: tric C, isallowed to turn freely in the plate M. M. LIVINGSTON, D, and it isprovided with a handle g, by B. GIROUXE.

